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The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is looking for two suspects accused of lighting chairs on fire and shooting guns outside of Tomari’s Coffee across the street from Tiny Town in late January.

The suspects were caught on surveillance video lighting furniture on fire outside of the Morrison coffee shop around 7 p.m. Jan. 31. Before putting out the flames, the video shows the men shooting their guns at the ignited furniture.

The ex-wife of a man charged with first-degree murder in the death of Samuel Addison Stewart testified on Friday that she found a bullet in her bedroom, which sits above the garage of her home.

Nancy Crise, the ex-wife of Kenneth Crise, also testified that she reset Kenneth’s cell phone. She told Deputy District Attorney Jed Greenblatt that she didn’t close Kenneth’s Facebook account and couldn’t recall doing anything else he asked after May 1, 2017, the date Stewart, 26, died.

The sounds heard on Feb. 23 in Ken Caryl that were thought to be gunshots turned out to be made by a faulty generator.

The Jeffco Sheriff’s Office “determined the cause of the sounds to be a malfunctioning generator located on the roof of the Safeway shopping center building in the 12000 block of West Ken Caryl Avenue,” according to a news release. “Safeway has been very cooperative throughout our investigation and is currently taking steps to fix the problem.”

It’s still unclear whether the man who shot a high-powered rifle at Deer Creek Middle School, injuring two students, will be allowed temporary, unsupervised visits from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo.

Bruco Eastwood, 39, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in October 2011 for the February 2010 shooting at the South Jeffco school and has been living at the Colorado Mental Health Institute ever since. During the shooting, Matthew Thieu and Reagan Weber, two eighth-grade students, were injured.

Roughly two weeks after state House Democrats rejected three gun control bills that would have allowed — among other things — concealed weapons in schools, the Republican-controlled state Senate passed a bill last Thursday that would allow Coloradans to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

Have you ever wondered what astronauts do about trash? Or how they keep track of their belongings in a microgravity environment?

These are legitimate problems NASA astronauts at the International Space Station face, and they are ones Chatfield Senior High School students aimed to solve through the HUNCH — high school students united with NASA to create hardware — program.

Jordan Lemarinel, one of two men arrested in connection with the May 1, 2017, death of 26-year-old Samuel Addison Stewart, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday.

The 12-member jury, after more than a day of deliberation, also found Lemarinel, 27, guilty of felony murder, tampering with a deceased human body, tampering with physical evidence, aggravated robbery, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery with the intent to kill, maim or wound, possession of a weapon by a previous offender and more. He was arrested May 5, 2017.

Taxpayers across the state could see a $1.6 billion tax increase question on their November ballots this fall if backers of a new school funding measure are able to collect enough voter signatures between now and July 11.